Community Spotlight: Kyle Davidson

Q1. Name & Role
A: Kyle Davidson - Co-Founder at Hypership

Q2. What are you obsessed with right now?
A: Have you heard of this thing called AI? It's kind of all I think about. Partly professionally, partly existentially

Q3. What's something people might be surprised to learn about you?
A: I'm on my fifth business. Not all hits - but honestly I’ve learned more from the ones that didn't work than the ones that did. Oh and my hair has been gray since my early twenties - not because of the start-ups!

Q4. What do you love most about working in this community?
A: Everyone's trying to get sh*t done - and I see a lot of people helping each other do exactly that. The Ormeau Labs team especially, they constantly go out of their way to help people without any expectation of return and i’ve felt at home here from day one

Q5. What’s your personal or professional “why”?
A: I'm motivated by the idea of building a better life for the people I love.  But I also just genuinely love what I do. Hard to separate the professional why from the personal one when the thing you do for work is the same thing you do for fun - but what a dream.

Q6. What app do you open first every morning?
A: I have an AI running 24/7 on a mac mini in my office that texts me in the morning via Telegram - so probably that. 

Q7. What’s the best piece of advice you’ve received?
A: Northern Ireland has a cultural habit of keeping your head down and not being too proud or loud about what you're doing - as though it’s a faux pas to have a brand. The best advice I ever got cut through all of that pretty succinctly: "Just do it, no one gives a f*ck."

Q8. What’s one thing you wish every founder or start-up knew?
A: It's all relationships. You can strategise all you want